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Early Societies

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Meaning of Homo Erectus:

a)

Tool Maker

b)

Upright man

c)

Wise/thinking man

d)

None

2.

Anthropology means:

a)

Study of human biology

b)

Study of human behaviour

c)

Study of ethnic groups

d)

Study of fossils

3.

The earliest clear evidence for the deliberate, planned hunting comes from the site:

a)

Box grove & Altamira

b)

Dolini Vestonice

c)

Kenya & Ethiopia

d)

None

4.

From about (a)   years ago, there is evidence of planned hunting from some European sites, Some sites, such as Dolni Vestonice .

5.

Site of Terra Amata is the example of:

a)

Planned hunting

b)

living in caves

c)

Temporary settlements

d)

Site found of early stone tools

6.

žPieces of baked clay and burnt bone along with stone tools, dated between 1.4 and 1 mya, have been found at :

a)

Ethiopia,Germany

b)

Chesowanja, Kenya and Swartkrans, South Africa

c)

Southern France

d)

Tanzania

7.

The earliest evidence for the making and use of stone tools comes from sites in

a)

Ethiopia and Kenya

b)

Ethiopia and Germany

c)

Kenya & Germany

d)

Ethiopia & Germany

8.

žHundreds of paintings of animals (done between 30,000 and 12,000 years ago) have been discovered in the caves of:

a)

Lascaux in Germany and Altamira, in Spain.

b)

Altamira, in Spain only

c)

Lascaux and Chauvet, both in France, and Altamira, in Spain.

d)

None

9.

By about 24 mya, there emerged a subgroup amongst primates called:

a)

Hominoids

b)

Hominids

c)

Homo habilis

d)

Genus

10.

The major differences between Australopithecus and Homo relate to:

a)

brain size only

b)

brain size,jaws and teeth

c)

Jaws & teeth

d)

There were no differences at all.

11.

Australopithecus comes from two words:________& _________.

(a)  

12.

There is indirect evidence of bipedalism as early as 3.6 mya.

This comes from the fossilised hominid footprints at-

a)

Laetoli, Ethiopia

b)

Laetoli, Tanzania

c)

Laetoli, Kenya

d)

None

13.

Homo is a Latin word, meaning;

a)

Boy

b)

Man

c)

Girl

d)

Monkeys

14.

Fossils of Homo habilis have been discovered at

a)

Omo in Ethiopia and at Olduvai Gorge in Kenya.

b)

Omo in Tanzania and at Olduvai Gorge in Ethiopia.

c)

Omo in Ethiopia and at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

d)

None

15.

Lazaret Cave is a site associated with early humans, located in:

a)

Southern France

b)

Northern France

c)

Germany

d)

Kenya